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to Commissioner Robert Moses, Mr. k. C. Jenkins, Borough Di- 
rector for Brooklyn, and others of the Park Department personnel 
for helpful and generous cooperation in our projects. 
Emergency Relief Bureau: Works Division 
Service Department—Project No. 89-Fb-374—-X is for the pur- 
pose of enabling the Garden “to supplement its regular staff with 
additional staff so as to more effectively serve the public and to 
take care of accumulating but urgently needed work which could 
, 
not otherwise be done.” The project was rewritten, dating from 
February 15. As the official report of July 3 says: “In no case 
have any of the men and women assigned to the Botanic Garden 
heen engaged in what is sometimes referred to as ‘made work’; 
in every instance they have been occupied in work which would be 
done by regular employees if the Garden had funds sufficient to 
make the appointment of regular employees possible.” The work 
has consisted of general office assistance, laboratory and curatorial 
assistance, translation of scientific publications from various for- 
eigen languages into English, and guard duty in the building and 
on the grounds. These activities, of course, are of a continuing 
and recurring nature, and so no question arises of a date when 
the “project” will be completed. 
The Botanic Garden has met all the expenses in providing the 
necessary additional office 
these workers, inc 
supplies and equipment required for 
uding considerable additional general overhead. 
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Members of the regular personnel have also cooperated in laying 
out and supervising the work, and in giving the necessary instruc- 
tion in the numerous cases where the technical nature of the work 
made such instruction necessary. 
The minimum number, as of January 31, was 20 (7 men, 13 
women). As of May 31, there were 27 (12 men, 15 women). 
“The cooperation between the Works Division and the Garden 
has, in general, been quite satisf 
— 
actory. A factor essential to this, 
in addition to the attitude of cooperation on both sides, has been 
the approval by the Bureau of our requirement that the Botanic 
Garden should not be expected to retain men or women assigned 
to it who were found to be incompetent, non-cooperative, or dis- 
